Estrada Consulting Incorporated
Sr. Test Analyst (Ref: 5830)
West Sacramento, California•Contract
$45 - $60 hourly
$45 - $60 hourly
About the Job
Senior Test Analyst – Legacy Application Modernization (Ref: 5830)
Location: West Sacramento, CA
Work Arrangement: Hybrid – 2–3 days onsite per week mandatory
Engagement: Consulting Contract 12-36 months
Tax Term: W2 rate 45-55 DOE or C2C $50-60 DOE
Work Arrangement: Hybrid – 2–3 days onsite per week mandatory
Engagement: Consulting Contract 12-36 months
Tax Term: W2 rate 45-55 DOE or C2C $50-60 DOE
We are seeking an experienced Senior Test Analyst to support a large-scale legacy application modernization initiative for a major public-sector organization. The consultant will work closely with business, functional, and technical testing teams and will be responsible for test execution coordination, defect management, traceability, metrics, SQL-based data validation, and review and development of key testing deliverables.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate with business, functional, and technical testers to establish test execution goals, priorities, and objectives.
- Manage application defects, including validation, follow-up, solution verification, escalation, and closure.
- Produce test execution and defect-management metrics, including burndown charts, trends, and related reporting.
- Review, develop, and provide input to project deliverables and testing artifacts, including:
- Business Requirements and Business Rules.
- Technical and Service Requirements.
- Test Strategies and Test Plans.
- Test Cases.
- Transition Plans.
- Requirements Traceability Matrices.
- Use Application Lifecycle Management/testing tools to document requirements, design specifications, test cases, defects, and end-to-end traceability.
- Develop and execute SQL queries against large databases to identify, validate, and analyze test data for applications and interfaces.
- Participate in testing activities supporting implementation and modernization of complex legacy applications.
- Collaborate with project, development, business, and technical teams throughout the testing lifecycle.
Mandatory Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience within the last 12 years working as a Test Analyst with large organizations and leading or participating in technical implementation or modernization of legacy applications.
- 10+ years within the last 12 years reviewing, developing, and/or contributing to business requirements, business rules, technical/service requirements, test strategies, test plans, test cases, transition plans, and traceability matrices.
- 8+ years within the last 12 years using Test Application Lifecycle Management tools such as JAMA to manage requirements, specifications, test cases, defects, and project traceability.
- 8+ years within the last 12 years working hands-on with large databases and writing SQL queries to identify and validate data for application and interface testing.
- Ability to work onsite in West Sacramento 2–3 days per week as part of a hybrid mandatory work model.
Additional Qualifications:
- Experience as a Test Analyst supporting a large public pension or retirement system.
- Experience leading or participating in the technical implementation of pension- or retirement-related software development projects.
- 5+ years within the last 12 years designing, developing, and executing automated testing using frameworks such as Selenium, Cucumber, and/or Robot Framework.
Ideal Background:
The strongest candidate will combine extensive enterprise testing experience with hands-on defect management, requirements traceability, SQL-based data validation, test automation, and experience supporting major legacy-system modernization initiatives. Public pension or retirement-system experience.